When the South China Premier visited Wuhan, they had to send 100 tons of gold from Nanhua to the central bank's vaults, of which 50 tons were stored in the vaults of the Wuhan Central Bank, 30 tons in the two major cities of Shanghai and Nanjing, and 20 tons in the Guangzhou branch.

Shanghai is the financial center of the Far East, bringing together hundreds of domestic and foreign financial enterprises, Guangzhou is adjacent to Hong Kong, Hong Kong has a developed economy, and there are many British banks and Chinese commercial banks, both of which have a large number of financial and trade exchanges every year, which brings great pressure to the central bank of Wuhan.

China lacks gold and silver, and in order to cope with the pressure brought by the bulk precious metal transaction, it "borrowed" 100 tons of gold from South China to stabilize the fiat currency exchange rate and ensure financial order.

To put it bluntly, it means strengthening the government's financial control and taking back financial power from foreign banks.

The cars of the Tax Police Corps travel between the vault and the train station.

As the Minister of Finance, Lin Yimin personally supervised the storage of gold and walked into the vault of the Wuhan Central Bank to check the gold storage.

Even Song Ziwen was no exception, and in addition to his busy schedule, he also took time to take a look at the vault.

Walking into the underground vault, you will enter a golden world, the gold is pressed into gold bricks, and the ground is built up one by one, neatly and neatly, and the golden light is shining, which makes people look shocked.

"Originally, there were 28 tons of gold in the gold inventory, most of which belonged to the central bank, and a small half belonged to the United States-China Bank and several large domestic banks such as the Bank of China, the Bank of Communications, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the Agricultural Bank of China, which basically accounted for more than 7 percent of the gold reserves in Wuhan, and the remaining gold was stored in foreign banks. HSBC and Citigroup have their own coffers. We don't have to worry about it.

As for the gold and silver of the people. It is estimated that there are a lot, but the people like to keep at home, unwilling to deposit in the bank, they will slowly change this inefficient habit, and then Wuhan's gold reserves will be more and more, and it is expected to exceed 100 tons. ”

Lin Yimin introduced Song Ziwen.

He knew the number of the vault very well, and he could easily say an approximate number. Confused by the glittering gold many times, he accompanied Song Ziwen to walk in the rows of golden walls. His face was calm and not at all excited.

"I'm excited when I see so much gold, why aren't you impressed at all?" Song Ziwen asked Lin Yimin with a smile.

"Of course, it's exciting, but that was a long time ago. It's no wonder after a long time, and that's how gold goes! Lin Yimin said lightly.

"Also, I'm almost forgetting that my Secretary of the Treasury is from the American-Chinese Bank, and I've seen more gold than here, right?" Song Ziwen smiled tentatively, and looked at Lin Yimin curiously to see how he answered.

Lin Yimin recalled: "It is indeed no less than here, and I have also entered the treasury of the US-China Bank in Nanhua. I was taken aback, but it didn't go too far. After all, it is a commercial bank. It is also a holding company, and the most valuable asset is not gold, but the financial network in various places and its several pillar industries. ”

"It makes sense, the US-China enterprises are too huge, if we are not one of them, others sitting in our position will probably be afraid, either conquered by the US-China or the net will be broken, and both sides will lose."

Song Ziwen nodded, thinking: With the rapid development of domestic industry and commerce, a number of powerful enterprises have emerged, and some enterprises in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places have joined forces to form several consortia and snatch a lot of markets from the Meihua consortium, but they can't challenge Meihua.

In time, perhaps they will unite against the United States and China, but that will be a long time later.

I heard Lin Yimin say again: "I have seen a lot of vaults, but the most shocking thing for me is in the United States, in the Treasury of the headquarters of Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, there is much more gold there than here, and the main sources of gold for the Federal Reserve's branches in the western region are Wells Fargo and Bank of America, two big banks." The former is controlled by William Financial Holdings, and the latter's equity is ostensibly dispersed in the hands of hundreds of thousands of small shareholders, but in fact it is almost secretly controlled by William Financial Holdings and several companies.

Although the gold rush has passed, the gold production in California and several surrounding states has not been low, and the annual gold output is mainly deposited in Wells Fargo, which has always had a good relationship with the miners and farmers in the west, and before the easterners moved westward, Wells Fargo took root in the Midwest.

I heard the young master say that in the early years when Nanhua was first founded, it was supported by gold from the United States. ”

"I didn't expect there to be these secrets behind this, I haven't heard you see it, if it weren't for this underground vault, I guess you wouldn't have told me. You're hiding so deeply! Song Ziwen listened interestingly, and did not forget to ridicule Lin Yimin.

I can't help but imagine how many treasures are dug up from the ground in a year behind the unknown gold mines of Sumatra and the West Coast!

It is no wonder that the British insisted on exterminating the Boers, which shows that South Africa has more gold than Sumatra and California.

This is imperialism!

Compared to them, the Wuhan government is a poor man. Although he originally had a good background, he had been in ruins for many years, and he had to work hard to catch up with the rich powers outside.

"Also, if it weren't for the fact that I was in this golden place today, I would have been moved, otherwise I wouldn't have remembered all the things in the past. After all, I don't dare to talk about those things outside. ”

Lin Yimin nodded with emotion, seeing that Song Ziwen listened with relish, he smiled mysteriously, and continued, "The most thrilling story about gold is the trip that took people to Siberia a few years ago. ”

"Siberia?" Song Ziwen was a little puzzled, frowning as if he had thought of something, and he couldn't grasp his thoughts for a while, and suddenly a flash of inspiration, isn't the gold of Siberia the legendary Tsar's gold?

"You mean the gold that the Russian emperor fled to the East and lost on the way?" Song Ziwen looked at Lin Yimin in surprise, and when he saw Lin Yimin smiling and nodding, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, looking at Lin Yimin's calm and a little smug eyes, and he was speechless for a while.

How many stories are hidden behind these eyes?

"Ahh Song Ziwen sighed, looked at Lin Yimin, and said curiously. "The golden legend of the Tsar is disturbed. True and false. Some people say that the Japanese have succeeded, but the Japanese do not admit it. It is also said that in London, the British monopolized the last glory of the Tsar's royal family, and the British also flatly denied it.

I also thought it would have fallen in the Siberian ice and snow, if this golden legend really existed. Unexpectedly, the person standing in front of me seems to be the knower of the shocking secret? ”

Song Ziwen blinked, as if he was saying to Lin Yimin: "You don't want to say it quickly?" ”

Lin Yimin looked back at the empty vault. There will be only him and Song Ziwen, and everyone else has been spent by the two of them.

Said slowly: "I didn't get involved in it, I didn't go to Siberia to eat ice and snow, and I only found out later." I don't know where the young master got the news, but when the autumn of that year was not yet winter, the chief of the absinthe secretly took a group of people to the north, and there were foreigners among them, well, it is estimated that they are Russians, or they may be guides or insiders. There are also our people, and there are hundreds of them. These people are not the agents and elite soldiers we have cultivated now, but the core forces of the Meihua Consortium and the William Consortium, even I know that they are not very well-known, in short, they are a group of mysterious and powerful people. ”

Song Ziwen nodded, each force has some hidden forces, he was not the prime minister at that time, he was busy taking care of the Wuhan Industrial Group, and he had not had the opportunity to contact this high-level secret.

Lin Yimin is Situ Nan's secretary assistant, so he is different. As for the absinthe Taoist, the fake Taoist priest in a suit is an existence that Song Ziwen does not easily provoke, who knows how much power he has buried under the table in Nanhua and China. Not to mention anything else, several generals of the military were trained and supported by those who absinthe all the way before they rose.

"The trees fell and scattered, and the people on the way to escape were panicked, and the people who transported the gold had different thoughts, and a small amount of gold was brought out and later fell into the hands of the Japanese, but not in many quantities.

Therefore, people say that the Japanese swallowed the tsar's gold, but they are not wronged. Most of the gold could not be transferred to the icy and snowy land of uninhabited Siberia, and a very small number of people in the know escaped by chance, and unfortunately fell into the hands of the young master. Hence the later unknown but thrilling battle for gold.

The U.S.-China Company deposited gold in the coffers of the big banks in New York in exchange for U.S. support for South China's independence, which is what South China is today.

Later, the gold was transferred from New York to South China, and I don't know how the young master redeemed the gold from Morgan's people, but judging from the fact that several pillar companies such as oil, steel, electricity, and automobiles of the William consortium have attracted shares from Morgan and other eastern banks, they should have exchanged benefits.

Maybe some of the gold bricks in front of us are from Siberia. ”

Lin Yimin smiled, touched a gold brick, felt cold, and added: "As for the British, did the Russians have less things in London before World War I?" Now not all cheap for them.

I think they are trying their best to block/lock Soviet Russia, maybe because they are weak in their hearts, and they are afraid that people will get things back. ”

"If I were British, I wouldn't spit out what I swallowed, and this is still an ownerless treasure, even more impossible."

Song Ziwen said.

"It's hard to say that there is gold with or without an owner, it is yours to spend something, and it may not be yours if you keep it old. As a ruler, sometimes you have to be willing, things like the tsar are still there, but the power is gone, the life is gone, what's the use? ”

Lin Yimin shook his head, and said in an appreciative tone, "Si, Da, and Lin are different, in order to raise funds for industrial construction, he sold the Tsar's treasures without money, this is the person who does things." ”

"You think so highly of him? Apart from ML, you're the second person against dealing with Russians? Song Ziwen teased.

"It's not a contradiction."

Lin Yimin shook his head.

"You may not know, if you are not afraid that some treasures will be sold, you will not be able to buy them, and the sale of those things in the young master's collection may be able to make you, the prime minister, not short of money to spend for a year and a half."

Lin Yimin smiled faintly, and aroused Song Ziwen's interest again.

"Then don't hurry—"

Without waiting for Song Ziwen to speak, Lin Yimin probably understood what he meant, and said, "If you have the opportunity, you can go to the vault of the American-Chinese Bank to have a look, it will definitely make you dumbfounded."

Last time, weren't you curious why I suddenly became interested in Sun Dianying, a small warlord in Hebei? The intelligence bureau also sent him a lot of arms.

He was able to dig up a lot of things in the imperial tomb, but fortunately, the chief of the absinthe sent people to keep an eye on them, and saved all those calligraphy, paintings, and antiques, and only lost some gold, silver and jewelry.

Most of those gold, silver, jewelry, and so on were exchanged for arms and fiat currency! (To be continued.) )